Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lynn Markley, a spokeswoman for Frito-Lay, says the company selects the general region where it wants to locate a new plant. It then prepares a sort of shopping list of requirements for the facility and contacts states about incentives...
Local authorities defend the deal with a rosy economic forecast prepared for Greater Louisville Inc., the metropolitan area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber study predicts that 6,000 UPS jobs "will spawn nearly 8,000 additional jobs" throughout the region. It is estimated that all those jobs in turn "will generate more than $477 million annually in payroll growth." As is the case with many economic-impact statements, the numbers are fuzzy. But whatever the case, growth would have occurred somewhere in the U.S., perhaps even in Louisville, where UPS is already heavily invested. To remain competitive...
...international body demanded Iraq resume cooperation with U.N. arms inspectors, but stopped short of threatening the use of force if Baghdad refuses. The U.S. is in no rush to respond to Saddam Hussein's latest defiance. "Unilateral military action by the U.S. will be opposed in the region, because Washington lacks a plan to get rid of Saddam and there's a great deal of Arab sympathy for the suffering of ordinary Iraqis," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "The perception of an American double standard when the country defying the international community is Israel rather than Iraq...
...remarkable success of this newly formed entity makes its conception quite intriguing. Oreskovich, who was ranked in the Pacific Northwest region of the USTA in high school, sorely missed competitive tennis upon arriving at Harvard...
Though the CIA has had its setbacks in the region--it failed to predict the Shah's 1979 fall in Iran and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990--the agency retains a mystique in the Arab world. "For Arafat, it's a big deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided...